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Traliblaze Talk: Stories from My Grandmother

By ⋅ May 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

This story was originally published in The Irish Times on October 29, 1996. My Grandmother died the next day soon after it had been read to her. STORIES FROM MY GRANDMOTHER By MARGARET E. WARD (note: spelling incorrect in Irish Times archive) 1482 Words 29 October 1996 Irish Times GRANDMA was a jailbird. The confirmation [...]

Carers: a curtailed and lonely life

By ⋅ May 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the loneliest jobs a person can do is not working on an oil rig or spending months at an Antarctic research station; it’s being a carer. Margaret E Ward looks at the emotional and physical toll and, in light of Government inaction, asks what we can do to help

A fair chance for older workers?

By ⋅ May 27, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

As our workforce ages, Margaret E. Ward believes that companies need to start redressing the balance and stop discriminating against older workers

Bee in your bonnet?

By ⋅ February 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Is there something wrong with the world you live in? Maybe it’s the way older people are treated. Perhaps it’s the shameful extent of child poverty.  It could be the slow pace of progress on the climate change issue. Whatever it is, it’s driving you crazy. So, what do you do? Complain to family and [...]

Shadow of a doubt

By ⋅ February 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Columnist Margaret E Ward discusses when she first realised her father was not well, his dementia and finding ways to cope Have your holidays left you wondering if all is as it seems? The season is a time for long-distance travel, bittersweet reunions, long chats and lots of observation. In the year or so since [...]

Community life the fairest deal for older people

By ⋅ October 27, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Surely the research shows that we have it wrong? Nursing homes are not the best answer. Community care of incapacitated older people is more natural and humane than the institutionalisation of nursing homes and hospitals.

Grey matters

By ⋅ October 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Finding her first grey hair has columnist Margaret E. Ward in a tizzy and rethinking her attitude to aging.

Assisted suicide: a right to choose?

By ⋅ September 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Assisted suicide: a right to choose?
In everymonday.ie’s new “Getting Notions” column, journalist Margaret E. Ward asks if you legally take away a person’s right to die then, as a society, shouldn’t you take responsibility for the dignity of their natural death?

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